Foldim table



' (No Model.)

F. A; WHITE, De0d. L. F. &, M. A. WHITE, Administrators.

FOLDING TABLE.

atented Jan. 17, 1888.

- UNITED I STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

FRANK ASA W'HITE, OF GANDOR, NEW YORK; LOUISA F. WHITE ADMIN- ISTRATRIX, AND MORGAN A. WHITE ADMINISTRATOR, OF SAID FRANK ASA WHITE, DECEASED. I

FOLDING TABLE.-

SPECIFICATION'fOIming part of Letters Patent No. 376,726, dated January 17, 1888. a I

Application filed November 1886. Serial No. 217,879. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, FRANK ASA WHITE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oandor, Tioga county, New York, have invented an Improved Folding Table, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Folding tables are well known and ingeneral use; therefore my invention can,and does, to relate only to the specific ways by whichI do my folding, the main feature of which is a' metallic frame, made of one rod or piece of iron, hinged at each end to each of the legs separately. The frameis secured by its central crossbar part, which is made quite long, to the bed-pieceof the table when the legs are extended, the purpose being to provide a free space for the knees of the one sitting at the ends of the table, while it does not inter- 2o fere with the lower limbs of those or the one who sits at the sides of the table, as will be apparent as I describe my invention.

Figure 1 repr'esentsatable lying on its side,

with my metallic frame attached to it. Fig.

2 are views of the end hinge of my metallic frame; and Fig. 3 is a view of bent legs made to. fit the style of a chair patented to me a few months ago. r

In the figures, a is the bed'piece, of any structure, to which my folding-leg device may be app1ied'-such as a table, bed, bench, or

other like structure. These may all be understood by a table, which therefore only is represented; and in the table a indicates the bed-piece,and'a the cross-pieces of the bed piece, (as the letter a"also indicates the places of attachment-to like parts in other structures,) and 1) indicates the fastening-fixture,

near the center of the bed-piece of the table,

40 and c c are metallic frames with their ends 0" c hinged to the legs d d. The metallic frames are each made of asingle piece of iron,

with its two sides inclining toward each other,

until it forms a cross-bar end, which end is 5 long enough to give ample space for the knees of the one who sits at the end of the table.

The middle portion of this cross-bar part of the frame enters the fastening-piece b, being placed in the notch. b when the legs are extended, and this end of the bracing-frame'lies.

loose when the legs are folded. The opposite frame enters the other notch b. A button, b., is turned over these cross-bar ends of the frames to hold the frames in place.

The legs d d are hinged either to the bedpie ce a or to the, cross stiffening-pieces a a". 'When bent legs are used, the parts described as folding are the same; 'but the two legs are madeof one piece of wood, bent as shown, in Fig. 3, and the upright pieces f f are tenoned into the posts, and the hinges that hold. the legs and bed-piece of the. table together are attached to them, as indicated at t" i, and a hinge is used at t, the topof the arch.

The cross-piece a is omitted in Fig. 3; but the piece d, which holds the legs together, is shown. v p I The hinges c c are preferably made, as seen in Fig. 2, by a bed-piece of iron, 9, with a bearing spur-or prong, g, projecting out ofit,

and theends of the sides of the iron frame are bent into hooks g, which go through the aper-' 'ture g{ in the bed-piece, and are so shaped that when the table-legs are nearly extendedthe ends of the hooks make a bearing on the spur, which bearingbecomes quitefirmtwhen the cross-bar end of the frame has entered the [notch b, thus aiding in stiffening of the table.

The letter a denotes the bracing ironframe asawhole. l y

The same principles apply to a cot bed,;th'e frame being hinged 'to the legs of the cot and the cross-bar end of the frame extending from one side rail of the bed to the other, and two holding-notches being used, one to each 'rail. The rest of my table and bedin their various parts is apparent. What I claim in the parts described -is- A bracing-frame, a, for the legs at (1, provided with an elongated cross-bar end, by 90 which a clear space is given for the knees of one sitting atthe end of the table, in combi nation with the hinge-plates g, studs 9, and hooksg of the hinge endsofthe. frame a, which'stiffen the brace, as set forth.

FRANK ASA WHITE.

' Witnessesz.

S. J. PARKER, I g E. E. (lost. 

